CASSIA SOPHORERA – AN ANTI FUNGAL REMEDY.

CLINICAL VERIFICATION ON RINGWORM.

Cassia sophera is a shrub, glabrous or nearly so, 3 m in height. Leaf compound, leaflets 8 to 12 paired, oblong-lanceolate, acute or tapering; rachis with a single gland at the base. Flowers yellow, in corymbose racemes; bracts thin, ovate-acuminatte, canducous; pedicel spreading, 1.25 to 2 cm; sepals obtuse glabrous, petals 6 to 7, 1.3cm, yellow, conspicuously veined. Fruit a pod, 2-valved, curved, petals 6 to 7, 1.3 cm, yellow, conspicuously veined. Fruit a pod, 2-valved, curved, thinly coriaceous, turgid, subterete, 5 to 12 cm long, 6 to 10 mm in diameter, transversely septate. Seeds are 30 to 40, broadly ovoid, compressed and dark brown. It is distributed throughout India.

The whole plant is used (leaves, stem, barks, roots) for the preparation of Homeopathic Mother Tincture. The drug is clinically verified on about twenty cases of Ringworm-a skin disease. It is used internally and externally. The period of response is about 2weeks to 6 weeks. Relapses to be verified on long term observations.

It is clinically verified and concluded that Cassia sophora has anti-fungal (Tinea) properties and hence, it is clinically healing the skin disease – Ringworm. In other skin diseases with dry, scaly, itching nature, this drug is found palliative on external application.

Chemical compounds: Cassia sophera contains the chemical compounds like sitosterol, chrysophanol, sopheranin, Rhamnetin, physcion, emoidin , etc.

 

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